Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 60 62
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,471 1,922 3,658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 4.40% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 4.71% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,054 2,755
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,775 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -57 1,342 £75,000 - 575
London +7 702 £87,500 +2.94% 235
UK excluding London -121 650 £67,500 -3.57% 391
Work from Home -35 637 £70,000 -2.77% 308
North of England -60 293 £69,310 -3.74% 122
South East -81 150 £67,500 - 113
North West -70 145 £70,000 -3.45% 74
Yorkshire -42 95 £69,310 -5.94% 26
South West -79 63 £52,500 -23.39% 49
Midlands -105 63 £67,500 +3.85% 55
North East +4 53 £65,000 +23.81% 22
West Midlands -68 41 £75,000 +7.14% 28
East of England -28 39 £60,100 +4.52% 26
Scotland -75 33 £62,500 -19.14% 15
East Midlands -79 21 £67,250 +7.60% 27
Wales -32 9 £53,171 +2.25% 7
Northern Ireland -30 7 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.16%) Confluence
3 15 (1.02%) Apache
4 14 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.88%) CMS
5 13 (0.88%) IIS
5 13 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.75%) JBoss
7 6 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.41%) WordPress
8 5 (0.34%) Drupal
9 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.27%) Appian
9 4 (0.27%) Camunda
9 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.20%) Liferay
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.48%) Maya
4 6 (0.41%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.068%) Quorum
6 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 786 (53.43%) AWS
2 614 (41.74%) Azure
3 297 (20.19%) GCP
4 241 (16.38%) Serverless
5 150 (10.20%) SaaS
6 128 (8.70%) GitHub
7 124 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (7.00%) Amazon S3
10 83 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 79 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.06%) Datadog
18 44 (2.99%) Azure AKS
19 40 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.08%) Broadband
2 16 (1.09%) Network Security
3 10 (0.68%) HTTP
4 9 (0.61%) DNS
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
6 7 (0.48%) Firewall
6 7 (0.48%) VPN
7 6 (0.41%) AMQP
7 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.41%) MQTT
7 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.34%) DHCP
9 4 (0.27%) LTE
10 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.20%) Modbus
10 3 (0.20%) RFID
10 3 (0.20%) SNMP
10 3 (0.20%) WAN
11 1 (0.068%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (12.85%) NoSQL
2 181 (12.30%) MongoDB
3 172 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 80 (5.44%) MySQL
6 74 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.01%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.52%) Redis
12 35 (2.38%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.90%) Big Data
14 22 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.09%) Pinecone
16 14 (0.95%) Power BI
17 11 (0.75%) DB2
18 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
19 8 (0.54%) Tableau
20 7 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 193 (13.12%) Git
2 133 (9.04%) GitLab
3 128 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.13%) JIRA
5 44 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 36 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.38%) JUnit
8 33 (2.24%) CircleCI
9 31 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 24 (1.63%) Maven
11 23 (1.56%) Mockito
12 21 (1.43%) Claude Code
13 18 (1.22%) Selenium
14 17 (1.16%) Bitbucket
14 17 (1.16%) SonarQube
14 17 (1.16%) Vite
15 10 (0.68%) JMeter
16 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
17 7 (0.48%) NUnit
17 7 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 421 (28.62%) Finance
2 315 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.13%) Banking
4 112 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 92 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.12%) Law
7 69 (4.69%) Retail
8 62 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.31%) Back Office
12 24 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.22%) Billing
14 17 (1.16%) Legal
15 16 (1.09%) Games
16 15 (1.02%) Advertising
16 15 (1.02%) Marketing
17 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.88%) Front Office
18 10 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 519 (35.28%) Developer
2 391 (26.58%) Senior
3 274 (18.63%) Software Engineer
4 212 (14.41%) Architect
5 191 (12.98%) Lead
6 129 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 124 (8.43%) Java Developer
8 122 (8.29%) Senior Developer
9 100 (6.80%) .NET Developer
10 98 (6.66%) Java Engineer
11 97 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 89 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 57 (3.87%) Lead Developer
14 57 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 50 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (2.92%) C# Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Senior Java Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (22.91%) React
2 317 (21.55%) .NET
3 268 (18.22%) RESTful
4 260 (17.68%) Node.js
5 233 (15.84%) Spring
6 219 (14.89%) REST
7 210 (14.28%) Spring Boot
8 181 (12.30%) Kafka
9 126 (8.57%) AngularJS
10 109 (7.41%) .NET Core
11 94 (6.39%) ASP.NET
12 92 (6.25%) gRPC
13 88 (5.98%) Vue
14 83 (5.64%) HTML
15 76 (5.17%) CSS
16 73 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
17 66 (4.49%) .NET Framework
18 65 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
19 55 (3.74%) OAuth
20 51 (3.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 409 (27.80%) Cloud Native
2 252 (17.13%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 85 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
6 56 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.06%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.52%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.77%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.70%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.63%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (1.29%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.16%) Web3
19 16 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 79 (5.37%) Linux
2 41 (2.79%) Windows
3 20 (1.36%) Unix
4 14 (0.95%) Android
5 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.27%) CentOS
6 4 (0.27%) Debian
6 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (48.54%) CI/CD
2 597 (40.58%) Agile
3 547 (37.19%) DevOps
4 526 (35.76%) Software Engineering
5 387 (26.31%) Containerisation
6 377 (25.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 327 (22.23%) Mentoring
8 288 (19.58%) Test Automation
9 286 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (19.37%) AI
10 285 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 284 (19.31%) Event-Driven
12 246 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 190 (12.92%) Scrum
14 181 (12.30%) Computer Science
15 170 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 164 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
17 162 (11.01%) Coaching
18 155 (10.54%) Clean Code
18 155 (10.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 480 (32.63%) Java
2 399 (27.12%) Python
3 319 (21.69%) SQL
4 307 (20.87%) JavaScript
5 290 (19.71%) C#
6 244 (16.59%) TypeScript
7 131 (8.91%) Go
8 50 (3.40%) Scala
9 49 (3.33%) C++
10 48 (3.26%) PHP
11 38 (2.58%) Bash
12 31 (2.11%) C
13 30 (2.04%) Ruby
14 24 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.29%) Rust
16 18 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
17 16 (1.09%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.88%) Groovy
19 9 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 189 (12.85%) Degree
2 156 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 106 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 102 (6.93%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.81%) AWS Certification
6 30 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.63%) CISSP
11 23 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
15 12 (0.82%) CISM
16 8 (0.54%) PhD
17 6 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.34%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.80%) QA
2 36 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.04%) GDPR
4 27 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.50%) NIST
7 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.68%) NCSC
10 9 (0.61%) GRC
10 9 (0.61%) WCAG
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.41%) IFRS
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) SLA
15 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.14%) SEPA
17 1 (0.068%) EMIR
System Software
1 449 (30.52%) Docker
2 12 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 461 (31.34%) Kubernetes
2 267 (18.15%) Terraform
3 83 (5.64%) Ansible
4 74 (5.03%) Grafana
5 44 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.97%) Argo
7 19 (1.29%) Kibana
8 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.68%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) HP Fortify
11 7 (0.48%) Cilium
12 4 (0.27%) Packer
12 4 (0.27%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 156 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.35%) Google
3 50 (3.40%) Oracle
4 45 (3.06%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 16 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 14 (0.95%) IBM
7 14 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 13 (0.88%) Splunk
9 11 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.68%) SAP
11 9 (0.61%) Cisco
11 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
12 8 (0.54%) Adobe
12 8 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.48%) Databricks
14 6 (0.41%) Okta
14 6 (0.41%) Palo Alto